We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.